Description
This collection of essays is a welcome addition to urban cultural studies. By bridging the history of dystopian imaginings and urban social and cultural history, it opens up new territory for interdisciplinary discussion. -- Jordan Sand, Georgetown University This is an exciting collection ranging across an impressive disciplinary span, including not only history and film studies but also anthropology, geography, and modern languages. The volume combines scholarly rigor with political and social engagement, and is full of eloquence and insight. It speaks to researchers across the arts, humanities, and social sciences who are concerned with the place of urban spaces in the dystopic visions of modernity. -- Jackie Stacey, University of Manchester
About the Author
Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. His books include "Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India", and "The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life" (both Princeton).
Reviews
"Noir Urbanisms deserves to be widely read and debated. In describing why inequalities or disasters have occurred, this becomes a lesson for the architects and urban designers master-planning cities of the future."--Esme Fieldhouse, Blueprint Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9780691146447
Author Gyan Prakash
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 397g